Jovana Pribic

Last Friday the most anticipated macro-economic news release shown that the US job growth has slowed down in the previous month. The NFP reading came with 157,000 jobs created, while the expectancy was 191,000 jobs. In addition, the private sector created a total of 170k jobs that was less than expected as well, since the […]

Yesterday all eyes were on the BoE decision regarding the interest rates and as it was widely expected, the rates were raised on Thursday. The decision came despite the raising concern over Brexit and the Bank of England has signaled that there additional hikes will come at a gradual pace. The Monetary Policy Committee of

The widely popular topic of the United States trade war with various countries seems not to get exhausted, therefore just two days ago during Presidents’ Trump speech in Florida we have seen him trying to defend his trade policies. He has devoted a significant amount of time discussing the US and China tit-for-tat tariffs and

On Monday the investors were keeping a close eye on the German annual inflation reading, where the results came as expected in July and remained above the ECB price stability target. The German consumer prices rose by 2.1% year-on-year basis, which was in line with the analysts’ expectations but above the European Central Bank target

Last Friday all eyes were on the advanced GDP reading from the US, where the results have shown that the United States economy had accelerated in the 2nd quarter, where the seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4.1% in the period April-June was almost double the expansion we have seen in the first quarter of the year,

As a widely expected decision yesterday, the European Central Bank had decided to leave the interest rates on hold, which are to remain unchanged throughout summer of 2019. The aim of ECB is to end the bond purchase scheme by the end of 2018 due to the fact that inflation is rebounding, as well as

As the Brexit date is approaching, British banks have been advised to draft a plan on how they are going to cope with the staffing and operations in the new basis to be opened in the European Union. According to Reuters, a shift in banking jobs in Britain is expected and may rise significantly from

On Tuesday the Euro zone flash services PMI showed that the new order inflows and reduced business expectation of future activity are signaling a lost momentum at the beginning of the 3rd quarter. The reading came at 54.4 as opposed to the forecasted 55.0, down from 54.9 in the previous month. However, according to Reuters,

On Friday Reuters had reported on the policy debate of China, as how to best cope with the slowing growth, where analysts have commended the Chinese authorities to boost fiscal stimulus during the rising risk of the trade conflict with the United States. Namely, what was requested is to adjust the fiscal policy and implement